Egide Marquet

Egide Marquet (13 October 1778-29 January 1814) was a Colonel of the Old Guard of the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Egide Marquet was born in Chalons-sur-Seine in 1778 and joined the French Army in 1794 at the age of 16 during the levee en masse. He was pushed into a regiment of Revolutionary Infantry that served under General Napoleon Bonaparte during the Italian Campaign of 1796 and the Egypt Campaign of 1798, gaining experience and the rank of Sergeant.

At the end of the French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleon formed the Old Guard of veterans loyal to him and Marquet was one of the troops that served in it. Marquet fought in the Battle of Austerlitz (1805), Battle of Friedland (1807), Battle of Borodino (1812), Battle of Dresden (1813), and Battle of Leipzig (1813), and at the end of the campaigns was promoted to Colonel of a regiment of Old Guard grenadiers

During the Defense of France, Marquet commanded his Old Guards in the Battle of Chalons-en-Champagne on 29 January 1814. His regiment was gunned down in the hundreds, with only 100 of 1,200 troops surviving the battle. Marquet was among the dead in the onslaught.